{"658245":{"#nid":"658245","#data":{"type":"news","title":"A Framework for Equity in Energy and Environmental Engineering","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs diversity, equity, and inclusion continue to be among the nation\u0026rsquo;s most important focus areas, a Georgia Tech researcher has created a framework to help his peers utilize more equitable data in their energy and environmental engineering studies.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ce.gatech.edu\/people\/Faculty\/7994\/overview\u0022\u003EJoe Bozeman\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026rsquo;s core research areas is America\u0026rsquo;s food consumption habits and how they affect climate change, specifically greenhouse gas emissions. The assistant professor in Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ce.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Civil and Environmental Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E looks at food intake across a number of groups, including socioeconomic status, race, and age. Using that data, he\u0026rsquo;s able to create models that better inform communities and assist policy makers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHowever, the most consistent, thorough data he uses to develop those models are from 2005-2010. Five-year datasets before and after that timeframe aren\u0026rsquo;t standardized, as all sociodemographic groups are not included. This makes it difficult for Bozeman to draw comparisons that are inclusive of everyone across spatial scales and time periods.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIt\u0026rsquo;s one reason why he and researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Colorado Denver have \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.liebertpub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1089\/ees.2021.0375\u0022\u003Epublished a framework and 10-step process\u003C\/a\u003E to help engineers, scientists, and community members standardize their data related to energy and environmental topics. Their goal is to integrate equity into these fields, a practice Bozeman and his colleagues call systemic equity. By doing so, they hope to create a system that all demographics of groups are included, including age groups, income levels, race, and ethnicity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2022\/05\/framework-equity-energy-and-environmental-engineering\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ERead the entire story on the College of Engineering website.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Researchers create process to integrate systemic equity to allow for more consistent and inclusive modeling"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs diversity, equity, and inclusion continue to be among the nation\u0026rsquo;s most important focus areas, a Georgia Tech researcher has created a framework to help his peers utilize more equitable data in their energy and environmental engineering studies.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Joe Bozeman has created a framework to help his peers utilize more equitable data in their energy and environmental engineering studies."}],"uid":"27560","created_gmt":"2022-05-16 17:54:21","changed_gmt":"2022-05-16 18:00:13","author":"Jason Maderer","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-05-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-05-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"658246":{"id":"658246","type":"image","title":"Joe Bozeman","body":null,"created":"1652723806","gmt_created":"2022-05-16 17:56:46","changed":"1652723806","gmt_changed":"2022-05-16 17:56:46","alt":"Joe Bozeman","file":{"fid":"249520","name":"Bozeman - Headshot-SMALL-DSC_0300 copy.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Bozeman%20-%20Headshot-SMALL-DSC_0300%20copy.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Bozeman%20-%20Headshot-SMALL-DSC_0300%20copy.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1991617,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Bozeman%20-%20Headshot-SMALL-DSC_0300%20copy.jpg?itok=Ao1oZ3fP"}}},"media_ids":["658246"],"groups":[{"id":"1237","name":"College of Engineering"},{"id":"1253","name":"School of Civil and Envrionmental Engineering"},{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71911","name":"Earth and Environment"},{"id":"71901","name":"Society and Culture"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCollege of Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nmaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["maderer@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}